 | George Bancroft - United States - 1834 - 530 pages
...friend of the Aug. London company, was confirmed in the government of the province; and he and his council, far from being rendered absolute, were only...time within the space of five years now last past." 2 This term of five years was precisely the period of representative government ; and the limitation... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1834 - 532 pages
...friend of the Aug. London company, was confirmed in the government of the province ; and he and his council, far from being rendered absolute, were only...at any time within the space of five years now last past."2 This term of five years was precisely the period of representative government ; and the limitation... | |
 | English periodicals - 1837 - 666 pages
...from being rendered absolute, he and his council were merely empowered to govern " as fully and amply as " any governor and council resident there at any...time within " the space of five years now last past ;" and it happened that these five years were exactly the period during which the Virginians had been... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1841 - 368 pages
...though he had been an ardent friend of the London company, was confirmed in office ; and he and his council, far from being rendered absolute, were only...assemblies. The king, in appointing the council in Virginia, rejected the imbittered partisans of the court faction, and formed the administration on the principles... | |
 | Henry Howe - Virginia - 1845 - 562 pages
...Wyatt was reappointed governor, and he and his council only empowered to govern " as fully and amply as any governor and council resident there, at any time within the space of five years last past" — which was the exact period of their representative government. The king, in appointing... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1851 - 282 pages
...though he had been an ardent friend of the London company, was confirmed in office ; and he and his council, far from being rendered absolute, were only...appointing the council in Virginia, refused to nominate the embittered partisans of the court faction, (1) Story's Com. i. 27. (2) Stith, 329, 330, doubts if judgment... | |
 | Henry Howe - District of Columbis - 1852 - 614 pages
...Wyatt was reappointed governor, and he and his council only empowered to govern "as fully and amply as any governor and council resident there, at any time within the space of five years last past" — which was the exact period of their representative government. The king, in appointing... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1854 - 550 pages
...though he had been an ardent friend of the London company, was confirmed in office ; and he and his council, far from being rendered absolute, were only...as any governor and council resident there, at any tune within the space of five years now last past." This term of five years was precisely the period... | |
 | Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy - Constitutional history - 1872 - 438 pages
...Wyatt and the local council in the colony, by which he empowered them to govern ' as fully and as amply as any governor and council resident there at any...time within the space of five years now last past.' As Bancroft observes,2 these model five years were almost exactly the five years during which representative... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1876 - 584 pages
...though he had been an ardent friend of the London company, was confirmed in office ; and he and his council, far from being rendered absolute, were only...of representative government ; and the limitation formally sanctioned the continuance of popular assemblies. The king, in appointing the council in Virginia,... | |
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London company, was confirmed in office ; and he and his council, far from being rendered absolute, were only empowered to govern " as fully and amplye as any governor and council resident there, at any time within the space of five years now last past. 
